Quotes About Struggle

I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

So He left them and went away once more and prayed a third time, saying the same thing.

At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek.

But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

Soon a violent windstorm came up, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was being swamped.

And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.

She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.

Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”

So they brought him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

Jesus asked the boyís father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.

“It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Jesus answered, “This kind cannot come out, except by prayer.”

They were even more astonished and said to one another, “Who then can be saved?”

And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.

But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along in years.

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.

For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and been driven by the demon into solitary places.

including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.

A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from him.

I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”

“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

Even while the boy was approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first.”